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From: bdodson@scms.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Availability of *non* PnP ethernet card
Date: 1 Jul 1997 21:38:42 GMT
Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science
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In article <86pvt3m6ml.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>,
	Marko Schuetz <marko@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:
> I am looking for a cheap ethernet card for my desktop
> PC. Unfortunately, it seems all that is offered these days are PnP
> ethernet cards. I assume I cannot use these with FreeBSD, set IRQ,
> memory base etc. Does anyone of a place selling inexpensive ethernet
> cards that have good old jumpers on them?
> 
> Marko

Most of the cheap NE2000 clones come with a configuration disk.  One
of the options is to turn off plug and pray and configure the card
manually.

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